Educational Science

Science news this week: Lava lakes and moon chunks

This week in science news, we followed an expedition to the bottom of the world in search of a lava lake, tracked a mysterious chunk of the moon orbiting Earth and discovered something horrifying hiding in someone's ear canal. Although we know much about the surface of our planet, there...

Save $50 on the Fitbit Sense 2 at Amazon

Fitbit's priciest smartwatch is reduced by $50 at Amazon - but you'll want to move fast. If you're looking for one of the best fitness trackers in 2023, the Fitbit Sense 2 should be on your list. A far cry from the more slimline, bracelet-style trackers the company made its...

A bounty of centuries-old artifacts in Germany — including seven swords, thousands of silver coins, jewelry and pottery — were unearthed by a group of volunteer conservationists. The excavators discovered the items last year at three separate locations dotting the German countryside, according to a translated statement. Officials from Germany's...

The best photos of the Oct. 14 'ring of fire' eclipse over North America

On Saturday (Oct. 14), 2023, a rare annular solar eclipse was visible throughout almost all of North, Central and South America, with lucky viewers in nine states getting treated to a spectacular ring of fire when the moon blocked all but the blazing outline of the sun. If you couldn't...

Man digs up 1,000-year-old sword from Swedish Crusades in his yard in Finland

While conducting maintenance work on his land, a man in southern Finland discovered a piece of iron sticking out of a mound of dirt. What he pulled out, however, wasn't scrap metal but a centuries-old sword. The unnamed landowner immediately contacted local archaeologists about the partially bent weapon, which had...

Debate settled? Oldest human footprints in North America really are 23,000 years old, study finds

Paleo-human footprints dotting White Sands National Park in New Mexico are 23,000 to 21,000 years old, making them the oldest known fossilized trackways left by people in North America, a new study finds. However, not everyone agrees with the results. The study, which used two dating techniques to verify the...

Science news this week: Horned comet and a mystery blob

This week in science news we discovered a city-size comet that regrew horns after a volcanic eruption, gawked at gorgeous mummy portraits from 2,000 years ago and solved a mystery about why some people have more Neanderthal DNA than others. The solar system is a violent place, as evidenced by...

9,500-year-old baskets and 6,200-year-old shoes discovered in Spanish bat cave

A collection of baskets and sandals found inside a bat cave in Granada, in southern Spain, were likely crafted by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer societies and are considered some of the oldest artifacts of their kind found in southern Europe, a new study finds. This summer, archaeologists radiocarbon-dated the artifacts, which are...

330-year-old coin hoard hidden in Scottish fireplace may have been buried moments before MacDonald clan massacre

A cache of coins secreted away in a Scottish stone fireplace may have belonged to a clan chief killed in a 17th-century massacre, according to archaeologists excavating the remains of a hunting lodge in Glencoe. The diverse collection of coins was likely hidden by someone unable to return and retrieve...